Better Book Ends
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Better Book Ends is the second release and first studio album by The Littlest Man Band
The Littlest Man Band
The Littlest Man Band was started by Scott Klopfenstein of Orange County, California. Scott was a long-time member of Reel Big Fish, a popular ska punk band. Scott had written a number of songs over the years that didn't conform to the usual style of Reel Big Fish...

. It was released on September 23, 2004 (see 2004 in music
2004 in music
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).

Track listing

  1. "The Preface" – 2:13 (The Preface is also the album title of a previous endeavor produced by some of the TLMB members, under the moniker PAL.)
  2. "Always Sayin'" – 5:53
  3. "Stayed Away Too Long" – 3:43
  4. "Bad That Is Beautiful" – 4:21
  5. "Happened Again" – 4:09
  6. "Maybe I" – 4:39
  7. "Sunshine" – 4:13
  8. "Wrong Bed" – 4:44
  9. "Better Man" – 5:30
  10. "It's You" – 6:48


Following a few moments of silence after "It's You" there is an impromptu, reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 version of "Better Man" just before the end of the album.

Personnel

The Littlest Man Band
  • Scott Klopfenstein
    Scott Klopfenstein
    Scott Allen "Scotty" Klopfenstein is an American musician and a former member of the band Reel Big Fish. He plays trumpet, guitar, keyboard, and sings....

     - Vocals, Keys
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s,
  • Jesse Wilder
    Jesse Wilder
    Jesse Wilder is a musician.-Career:Wilder's first band was The Scholars, in which he sang, played saxophone and keyboards, then began writing songs with Aaron Barrett for Reel Big Fish...

     - Guitar, Keys
  • Jake Berrey - Acoustic
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

     and Electric Bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Greg Parkin - Drum
    Drum
    The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

    s, Percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , Backing Vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

  • Dan Regan
    Dan Regan
    Dan Regan is the trombone player for the Southern California-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish. Regan has also played trombone in The Littlest Man Band with Scott Klopfenstein and currently has a hip-hop side project under the alias Black Casper.- External links :...

     - Trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

  • Vince Walker
    Vince Walker
    Vincent Francis Walker , better known as Vince Walker, is the lead singer of third-wave ska band Suburban Legends...

     - Trumpet
  • Tony Ortega - Trumpet


Additional personnel
  • John Molino - Keys & Arrangement
    Arrangement
    The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

    s on "The Preface"

Production

  • Co-producers: Scott Klopfenstein & Greg Parkin
  • Engineer: Mike Glines
  • Mixing: Mike Glines, except for "Stayed Away Too Long" and "Sunshine" by Steve Genewick
  • Mastering: Ron McMaster
  • Album Design, Art Direction: Nic Cowen
  • Photography: Lisa Huey
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